Live Wallpapers

Android phones support a feature called "Live Wallpapers", which allow an animated scene (or even an application, with some work) to run as the desktop background. We've created a number of these, with the philosophy that they should be non-gimmicky attractive backgrounds a step up from static images.

All of these wallpapers perform well and have a near-zero impact on battery life. We do our best to make sure that you're not sacrificing usability for a pretty backdrop.

How to use:

If your phone supports them, Live Wallpapers will have their own category listed when you go to your wallpaper customization screen (alongside "gallery"). On most phones, a long-click on the desktop will get you there, though some phones may require that you use the "menu" button at the home screen instead.

Our Wallpapers:

Currently, Kittehface has over twenty Live Wallpapers on the market, with both a free version and paid version in most cases. In general, the paid version is exactly the same, but has a settings menu allowing the user to change colors, speeds, etc. All wallpapers are sensitive to home-screen scroll, though generally more so in portrait than landscape layout. All of them support both portrait and landscape mode. No prerendered movies here!

Aquarium is a beautiful wallpaper featuring tropical fish with a variety of plants and backgrounds. Very highly rated on the marketplace and improving all the time, it's our most popular wallpaper. Features up to 14 fish at once (all individually selectable from many different species!), multiple types of plants, two types of anemones, controls for overhead light and bubbler, selectable tank props, and a number of selectable backgrounds.

There's interactivity too! Double-tapping the screen breaks out the fish flakes and feeds your little friends, tapping on a fish will cause him to run away, and tapping the glass will get their attention!

Dynamic Paint is a very cool dynamic simulation of wet paint! Drag your finger to spray the paint, or tap to splatter it! Watch it run down the wall, following, cracks and contours realistically! A fantastic way to satiate that inner artist. :)

This is a really fantastic background with a subtle but beautiful effect, and has lots of settings to control the painting surface, the thickness of the paint, which colors to paint with, the detail level of the liquid simulation, and more!

Both a live wallpaper and a full-featured dice app, Dynamic Dice accurately physics simulates a variety of different game dice, with full customization of different dice colors and a selection of appropriate backgrounds!

A simple but beautiful wallpaper of a swirling spiral galaxy, Galactic Core tilts the backdrop based on your current home screen, and can move the camera based on screen touches or the camera orientation. Lots of settings to control colors, camera zoom and movement speed, and more.

A beautiful live wallpaper for Android phones, Asteroid Belt fills your home screen with a moving solar system, as asteroids tumble past in the foreground. Three different backgrounds are available and it has full support for both portrait and landscape mode, with sensitivity to home-screen switching.

Preferences let you control the display of the solar system, the density of asteroids, asteroid speed, the speed of the camera, and more!

Fly through space faster than light! A fun wallpaper that gives you a chase camera behind your Android buddy by default, but provides options to switch to a spacecraft or nothing at all, if you wish. Lots of controls for flight speed, background color, star brightness, camera speed, and more. Double-tap different places on the screen to do a barrel roll or engage turbo boost!

Blue Skies takes you soaring through fluffy white clouds, and has a very clean, serene feeling to it. There's prefs for controlling speeds, cloud density and so on, and it'll show you how many unread text messages you have by drifting colorful balloons through the scene! Or, if you prefer, it'll show you balloons randomly. However you like it, really.

This is a calming backdrop with smooth motions that works beautifully as a wallpaper. Classy and doesn't get in the way.

A particularly colorful and beautiful scene of green fields, blowing grass and easter eggs. We're especially proud of the grass here, which has over ten thousand individual blades of grass animating. Butterflies flap from point to point and the eggs rock when you touch them.

The settings available let you adjust the wind speed, the number of eggs, the style of basket, the butterfly population, and a number of other things.

A beautiful backdrop of swaying pine trees and gentle snowfall. Lots of settings available -- celebrate the season with colorful Christmas lights, and have the sky and lighting shift based on the time of day. Customize light colors, density and chaos of snowfall, and more!

A spectacular lightning storm as your Android desktop! This one has lots of layers of moving clouds and periodic bolts of lightning that cut their way through the scene. Lots of nice parallax when switching home screens. As always, there's full support for both landscape and portrait mode.

The settings include light color, bolt color, number of clouds, bolt frequency, whether or not the light flashes when a bolt occurs, wind speed, camera speed, and more. Pick your favorite color scheme, how crazy you want the lightning to be, and go!

Silhouetted trees and grass, with a peaceful background, explored by lit fireflies. Fireflies is a a serene, subtle live wallpaper with settings to control the appearance of the background and the number of fireflies in the scene.

A beautiful live wallpaper of a ridgeline silhouetted against a sunset. The clouds move, the trees sway, and the camera moves as you chance home screens. Silhouette also supports color shifting of the sky based on the time of day, with user-selectable colors for midnight, 6am, noon, and 6pm.

An ornate wallpaper totally appropriate for Valentine's Day! Hearts drift across your home screen, with options to control the style and frequency. Have special hearts that contain the image of a loved one, and have hearts appear in a puff wherever you touch! A beautiful and fun wallpaper that runs well on all devices.

Display your favorite images in a high-quality slideshow right on your Android home screen! This live wallpaper allows you to select any images on your device and control how they're displayed -- complete with zooms, pans, transitions, crossfades, and more! Display your photos with Ken Burns style camera motions or as a traditional slide show.

Gallery is also capable of downloading images automatically from the internet, supporting services like Flickr, Picasa, and Reddit. Simple provide search terms (or subreddit URLs) and it'll handle everything in the background. You can set requirements on storage size and update rate to suit your preferences.

Take any Photosphere image and use it as your home screen background! Swipe with your finger to look left and right, and tilt your phone look up and down! Or, of you prefer, allow the wallpaper to pan for you!

A gorgeous wallpaper featuring a tropical waterfall surrounded by jungle ruins. The plants move, the water falls, the flames flicker, and the fog really draws the look together beautifully. Lots of small details and colors really create a fantastic background image.

What's the point of having a home screen free of (un)death and carnage? Overcome this limitation with an endless horde of zombies ravening for the last members of the human race! Tap on the zombies to kill them, or let the survivors in the bunker finish them off for you! Let the zombie gore pile up over time, painting a macabre piece of constantly changing abstract art!

The full version lets you select Zombie blood color, population, and edit the weapon selection the survivors have available, in addition to expanding the roster of undead.

City at Night brings motion to a classic long-exposure city image, in this case a nighttime shot of Kuala Lumpur. Lots of speed control settings, plus cycling of the background clouds based on time of day, including the ability to customize which colors are used for which times.

KF Billiards Live Wallpaper is a good looking, accurately physics-simulated pool table, which honestly is a pretty fun toy to have running as your home screen background. The billiard balls have a nice glossy look and can be skinned in a variety of styles. You can customize the felt color and game style however you like!

A very peaceful live wallpaper featuring a group of Koi fish exploring their pond. Touch and drag to interact with the water surface, or double tap to throw them some food! Includes dozens of different koi colors and patterns do you can adjust the appearance of your fish population.

The paid version also includes options for rainfall and touch pressure, and lets you pick from a wide variety of different backgrounds for the pool itself!

Host a celebration right on your home screen! A beautiful live wallpaper featuring OpenGL rendered fireworks. Watch them launch from the bottom of your screen and explode into bursts of color, and keep an eye out for the occasional big finale! Head to the settings screen for full control over which types of fireworks appear and how often. Select from different background images to set the mood however you prefer!

A beautifully animated flag blows in the wind, with photographic north american landscapes in the background. Select from tons of flag images -- USA, Canada, Greenland, Mexico, all 50 US states, District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Preferences include the style of flag, wind speed, camera speed, background image, and you can specify your own flag and background images if you'd like. Supports both portrait and landscape mode (check the EU Flags image just below for how landscape looks)!

A beautifully animated flag blows in the wind, with photographic European landscapes and cities in the background. Select from tons of flag images (check the list below). Preferences include the style of flag, wind speed, camera speed, background image, and you can create your own flag and background images if you'd like. Supports both portrait and landscape mode (see the NA Flags image just above to see how portrait looks)!

In the mood for something a bit zen? Bamboo Forest is a serene scene of waving bamboo trees with shafts of light from above. It's got lots of color preferences for fog and light, along with settings for fog density and camera speed, and controls for enabling/disabling the particles and light rays.

This authentic simulation of a kaleidoscope lets you select from a wide variety of different lens and pattern types! Control coloration and interact with the screen to adjust angle and pattern location, or let the pattern slowly change on its own over time!

Don't be afraid! A cute Halloween live wallpaper that celebrates the mood of the season! Pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns, a haunted house, witches, bats, the full moon, spiders, and more! Has settings for adjusting the number of bats, witches, and spiders, along with the ability to spawn bats only on screen touches, and more!

A field of flowers blow in the wind with a photographic backdrop behind them. The flowers are 3D animated models that look beautiful when the desktop scrolls. Has a nice energetic feel and works well as a background element. Options for yellow or purple flowers and three different backgrounds.

A very cute live wallpaper featuring the world's cutest insect! The ladybugs explore your home screen, with a number of selectable backdrops, shadows from the plants overhead, and they do a little dance when you double-tap! Butterflies select a landing spot, fly in from offscreen, sun themselves for a few seconds, and flit away again. There's six different types, and you can select their frequency from one every minute or two, all the way up to invasion!

Options for red, realistic, or rainbow colored laybugs, camera control, and others round all this out.

Celebrate fall with a beautiful background of autumn leaves blowing in the wind! A super-sharp foreground and soft focus background has the feel of a macro photograph, while being fully 3D rendered! Visit the settings screen to control for tree species, light color, time of day, and more! Select from different backgrounds! Contains seven species: Birch, Cherry, Japanese Maple, Ginkgo, Maple, Oak, and Poplar.